Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last night, McLaughlin kept the Classics in the game while his teammates loosened up. With the game tied at eight apiece and neither team penetrating, the Classics jumped to an 18-8 lead which they never relinquished. McLaughlin rippled the twine from outside three times in this stretch...
Heffner says that he "hated the game when he started but it was the people who kept him going." He cautions however that rugby is more than a Saturday afternoon picnic. "It's an intense athletic experience and you don't have to play the game well to have a good time." "It's poetry in motion," says Downey...
...productivity of his pen hand. He established a daily regiment: two hours of work in a room maintained at optimal temperature and humidity, at precisely the same time each morning, immediately followed by lunch, his reward. He carried a pen and pad with him at all times, and kept a tape recorder at bedside, as crutches for his fallible human memory, which might miss stray bits of "verbal behavior" that popped out at inconvenient times. He also probably made use of his "spare mind"--catalogued files of index cards which contain each idea he has had about psychology...
What sort of relationship does such a man have with himself? Long before he turned to psychology--which was not until his twenties--he kept careful diaries of interesting occurrences. He hoped to be a writer then and composed poems and short stories by the notebook. Wittingly or not, almost all had a common protagonist--himself. Skinner was preoccupied with himself throughout his youth, but only as an alien object, a specimen. (In his first experiment with behavior modification, he invented a Rube Goldberg contraption to raise a "Hang Your Pajamas" sign in his doorway when he stepped...
...supposed to be such a close game last night but inconsistent play by Leverett and 18 foul shots out of a whopping total of 33 attempts kept Eliot in the game...